Languages And Linguistics Of Middle And Central America
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| Author | : Søren Wichmann |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 820 |
| Release | : 2024-12-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110421763 |
The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser known languages, also including sign languages. The volume moreover features overviews of recent research on topics such as language acquisition and the expression of spatial orientation across languages of the region.
| Author | : Lyle Campbell |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 765 |
| Release | : 2012-01-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311025803X |
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
| Author | : Gabriela Pérez Báez |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2016-07-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110428946 |
Up to now, the focus in the field of language documentation has been predominantly on North American and Australian languages. However, the greatest genetic diversity in languages is found in Latin America, home to over 100 distinct language families. This book gives the Latin American context the attention it requires by consolidating the work of field researchers experienced in the region into one volume for the first time.
| Author | : Loretta O'Connor |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2014-03-20 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1139867989 |
In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of features from sixty languages, the book analyses major language families such as Tupian and Arawakan, as well as the Quechua/Aymara complex in the Andes, the Isthmo-Colombian region and the Andean foothills. It explores the effects of historical change in different grammatical systems and fills gaps in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database, where South American languages are underrepresented. An important resource for students and researchers interested in linguistics, anthropology and language evolution.
| Author | : Daniel Siddiqi |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2019-09-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1351810278 |
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at different stages of their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of the most frequently discussed language families of North America. The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences, including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics. Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.
| Author | : Łukasz Jędrzejowski |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2021-04-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027260176 |
This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-European languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and naming strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-culturally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists.
| Author | : Amy L. Paugh |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2012-09-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0857457616 |
Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children’s agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children’s cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language.
| Author | : Edward Vajda |
| Publisher | : Brill's Studies in the Indigen |
| Total Pages | : 546 |
| Release | : 2022-01-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789004436817 |
This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eskaleut and Na-Dene, that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia.
| Author | : Larry Trask |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2014-05-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1317859162 |
The terminology used in linguistics can be confusing for those encountering the subject for the first time. This dictionary provides accessible and authoritative explanations of the terms and concepts currently in use in all the major areas of language and linguistics, (pronunciation, word structure, sentence structure, meaning) as well as in the study of the social, anthropological, psychological and neurological aspects of language. Entries are clear and unambiguous, and helpful examples are used to clarify where appropriate. Particular attention is given to the terminology of traditional grammar. There are entries for the names of major language families, and there are also brief biographical entries for the major figures in the field, past and present. An extensive cross-referencing system makes the book easy to use: an invaluable annotated bibliography of texts on linguistics makes it an ideal guide for everyone beginning the study of language and linguistics.
| Author | : Lyle Campbell |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 625 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0197673465 |
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.
